The terms “Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games” and “VANOC” are deemed to be Olympic or Paralympic marks (until December 31, 2010), whose adoption or use by a person in connection with a business, as a trade-mark or otherwise, is prohibited by the Act (with some exceptions).

Considering that this Olympic Marks Bill was on the Fast Track, I’m actually surprised that it has not yet come into force (through order of the Governor in Council, as required by section 15 of the Act).

As a side note, I’m seeing some similarities with VANOC’s web linking policy to those of Captain Copyright back in 2006, including that VANOC prohibits a linking website from having materials that are harmful to the Olympic Movement and that VANOC reserves the right to deny or rescind permission to link to their website for any reason in their sole and absolute discretion.

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